Chicken Soup for the Soul

For Me To Be More Creative, I Am Waiting For... 
1. Inspiration 
2. Permission 
3. Reassurance 
4. The coffee to be ready 
5. My turn 
6. Someone to smooth the way 
7. The rest of the rules 
8. Someone to change 
9. Wider fairways 
10. Revenge 
11. The stakes to be lower 
12. More time 
13. A significant relationship to: 
(a) improve 
(b) terminate 
(c) happen 
14. The right person 
15. A disaster 
16. Time to almost run out 
17. An obvious scapegoat 
18. The kids to leave home 
19. A Dow-Jones of 1500 
20. The Lion to lie down with the Lamb 
21. Mutual consent 
22. A better time 
23. A more favorable horoscope 
24. My youth to return 
25. The two-minute warning 
26. The legal profession to reform 
27. Richard Nixon to be re-elected 
28. Age to grant me the right of eccentricity 
29. Tomorrow 
30. Jacks or better 
31. My annual checkup 
32. A better circle of friends 
33. The stakes to be higher 

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34. The semester to start 
35. My way to be clear 
36. The cat to stop clawing the sofa 
37. An absence of risk 
38. The barking dog next door to leave town 
39. My uncle to come home from the service 
40. Someone to discover me 
41. More adequate safeguards 
42. A lower capital gains rate 
43. The statute of limitations to run out 
44. My parents to die (Joke!) 
45. A cure for herpes/AIDS 
46. The things that I do not understand or approve of to go away 
47. Wars to end 
48. My love to rekindle 
49. Someone to be watching 
50. A clearly written set of instructions 
51. Better birth control 
52. The ERA to pass 
53. An end to poverty, injustice, cruelty, deceit, incompetence, 
pestilence, crime and offensive suggestions 
54. A competing patent to expire 
55. Chicken Little to return 
56. My subordinates to mature 
57. My ego to improve 
58. The pot to boil 
59. My new credit card 
60. The piano tuner 
61. This meeting to be over 
62. My receivables to clear 
63. The unemployment checks to run out 
64. Spring 
65. My suit to come back from the cleaners 
66. My self-esteem to be restored 
67. A signal from Heaven 
68. The alimony payments to stop 
69. The gems of brilliance buried within my first bumbling efforts to be 
recognized, applauded and substantially rewarded so that I can work on 
the second draft in comfort 

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70. A reinterpretation of Robert's Rules of Order 
71. Various aches and pains to subside 
72. Shorter lines at the bank 
73. The wind to freshen 
74. My children to be thoughtful, neat, obedient and self-supporting 
75. Next season 
76. Someone else to screw up 
77. My current life to be declared a dress rehearsal with some script 
changes permitted before opening night 
78. Logic to prevail 
79. The next time around 
80. You to stand out of my light 
81. My ship to come in 
82. A better deodorant 
83. My dissertation to be finished 
84. A sharp pencil 
85. The check to clear 
86. My wife, film or boomerang to come back 
87. My doctor's approval, my father's permission, my minister's 
blessing or my lawyer's okay 
88. Morning 
89. California to fall into the ocean 
90. A less turbulent time 
91. The Iceman to Cometh 
92. An opportunity to call collect 
93. A better write-off 
94. My smoking urges to subside 
95. The rates to go down 
96. The rates to go up 
97. The rates to stabilize 
98. My grandfather's estate to be settled 
99. Weekend rates 
100. A cue card 
101. You to go first 
David B. Campbell 

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